Ultimate Guitar/Bass thread!

12-08-2006, 11:14 AM

there's a lot of members on here who play guitar, bass, drums, etc...I thought it would be cool to have a thread on here dedicated to talking about it. whether you're playing with a band or just playing with yourself (looking at you depeche!), post what gear you're using. what gear do you plan/want to get? whats good? what sucks? converse amongst yourselves.

plan to put a matched set up duncan pearly gates in the Iceman. give it some growl, but I like the lower output, open sound the 'gates have to them. it's different than what everyone else is doing, which I like.

looking into selling the peavey head to help fund a mesa boogie recto. can't really decide if I want to go single or dual? the dual seems like more wattage than I will ever need, but it does have some cool features like lead boost and some other stuff. but the single is simply more affordable.

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yeah, well its a certain breed that love the warlock and beast designs. I had a cheapo warlock when I was 15 or 16. it was fun while it lasted. played a show and smashed it. at the time I figured "what the hell? this will be fun and I have a kickass Ibanez RG!". unfortunately the smashing of it greatly reduced the resale value. I sold it to some kid for $10 thereafter.

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yeah, well its a certain breed that love the warlock and beast designs. I had a cheapo warlock when I was 15 or 16. it was fun while it lasted. played a show and smashed it. at the time I figured "what the hell? this will be fun and I have a kickass Ibanez RG!". unfortunately the smashing of it greatly reduced the resale value. I sold it to some kid for $10 thereafter.

I'd never smash or resell my Warlock or Beast. I even have a stud leather strap for the Beast.

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I play bass and rock a Rickenbacker and mexican Fender Jazz Bass. I have a Fender combo amp/cab and like digitech effects(digi-delay and whammy) as well as a Zoom multi effects petal for distortion and chorus effects. I play 3 finger style, slap and pop, finger tapping and use a pick.

I'm into alot of different styles of music but i like to make disonent jazz runs and such.

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thats cool. I was talking about the humbuckers, you know, those two square things that lay underneath your strings, and you have a little switch that selects between the two.

a lot of metal enthusiasts use EMG 81's in there. you should look into buying some. if you think your BC Rich's sound "metal" now, those will blow your socks off.

I thought those were pickups under my strings. ??: And is that was that fucking switch does? I know it makes the sound lower and higher, but it changes between the pickups/humbuckers/whatevers?

What do you mean? Are you saying it'll make the sound deeper/heavier? Because I'm not that kind of "down tune it until it sounds like a fart" metal. I'm more of a "write a really cool riff and play it faster each time you play it" kind of metal.

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I thought those were pickups under my strings. ??: And is that was that fucking switch does? I know it makes the sound lower and higher, but it changes between the pickups/humbuckers/whatevers?

What do you mean? Are you saying it'll make the sound deeper/heavier? Because I'm not that kind of "down tune it until it sounds like a fart" metal. I'm more of a "write a really cool riff and play it faster each time you play it" kind of metal.

These are 4 different styles of pickups

Humbuckers:

Singlecoils:

Piezo:
Can't get a picture because most the time you can't see them

Synth / midi pickups: (which I used to own)

I'll go find some random pictures of my guitars, If I can't find any I'll take new ones.